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Chicago examiner wednesday Chicago september 17 1913 vol xl no 231 a m wednesday registered fn j s patent office price one cent a^fctf 5 ss^'je 6o cents per month schmidt slew girl to seal lips on seal of betrayal police find that anna aumuller had prepared to bare secret of pastor's double life with her to maid at the rectory other inquiries reveal that slayer was fake doctor as well as coiner and gay rois terer in noisy parties at flat â€” â€” â€” new york sept 10 fear that anna i aumuller was about to expose his rela tions with her as well as other details of his double life was the motive for the girl's murder by the iter hans schmidt at least this is the theory held to night by inspector faurot of the police and coroner feinberg their belief is based on the discovery of several hither to hidden chapters in the past of the fake priest neither faurot nor fein berg believes the prisoner insane they consider him a monster feigning insan ity to escape the chair in addition to his activities as a coun terfeiter schmidt practiced as a doctor specializing in the cases of women de siring illegal operations - he also man ufactured a fake pill which he sold to these women at a high price under the name of dr molicre formerly of paris was gay man about town his clerical professional and coun forfeiting activities however did uot take up all of his time for the police have learned that the flat of his partner in some of his crimes dr ernest a mu ret was used liy schmidt and muret as a rendezvous for gay parties attended by other girls tbau miss aumuller it was in this flat that schmidt used to change his clerical garb for the clothing of a layman and some of the orgies held here were so boisterous in character tbat other tenants in the building complained to the agent dr muret it has been learned has | no license to practice as a dentist iu new york furthermore it has been discovered that he comes from mainz germauy where schmidt was iu trouble in 1908 this discovery discounts ln the minds of the police schmidt's statement that lie met muret after coming to new york girl's chum gives clews anna uirt formerly employed with anna aumuller at st boniface's rectory has supplied the police with information on which tlie theory of murder to avoid ; exposure is based she says she is sure anna aumuller was about to confess to her the relations she auua aumuller had had with schmidt and that the fake priest discovering this had decided that only by murdering her could he seal her lips muret was arraigned in the harlem court to-day charged wit hhaving a loaded weapon ln his possession in viola tion of the sullivan law he was held in 5,000 ball which he was unable to furnish wlieu examined by the police to-day muret defied them to connect him with the murder of the aumuller girl or to mrs scott durand society woman farmer of lake bluff who has been named by governor dunne as a delegate to the interna tional farming congress mrs scott durand to be farm delegate gov dunne names her to attend international congress waukegan 111 sept 16 the honor of being a delegate to ttie international farming congress and exposition of soil products which is to be held in tulsa okla has been tendered a lake county woman mrs scott durand who conducts the famous crab tree dairy at lake bluffs this afternoon she received a letter from governor dunne iu which he appointed her a delegate from Illinois it is probable that there will be but oue or two more candidates from the entire state mrs durand will attend farm ers will be preseut from all over the united states and the world millionaire bissell leads fire fighters son of carpet sweeper manufac turer hero in forest blaze los angeles sept 16 harvey bis sell millionaire son of the head of the bissell carpet sweeper company of grand rapids mich to-day led hundreds of fire fighters iu a conflagration in the sierra madre mountains near la ; cres centa just back of pasadena the fire started saturday and was thought to have been put out by chief forester charlton and 350 men but broke out afresh when a brisk breeze swept the fire toward the bissell ranch menacing lt i and a dozen nearby ranches bissell took ! charge of theifight to check the flame sunderland called to wheeler's post consul general at canton china going to italian embassy special cable to thc examiner rome sept 16 a private cable re ceived here to-night states that george sunderland amer.cau consul general at canton china has been designated to succeed tost wheeler as secretary of tlie american embassy in home mr wheeler left here yesterday for washing ton where he has heen called to explain certain charges tiled against him cub fire in which five died was incendiary j j miller 15 years after blaze in aye:-s building makes accusation investigation to open skokie club also declared to have been burned by firebugs after the lapse of fifteen years there was found a witness yesterday to say that he fire which destroyed the six-story tyres building 215 south wabash ave iue on march 10 isub costing the lives if five persons including a wealthy business man was of incendiary origin moreover this witness also asserts that the burning of the skokie club building at glencoe on november 20 1911 also was due to an incendiary who he says fired the club building u two places the witness is john j miller of 0809 : south green street a written state i ment signed by miller yesterday was j placed in the hands of first assistant state's attorney frank johnston jr vho will examine miller to-day and will hen proceed to a rigid investigation of all the eireumstauces of both fires de spite tho time that has elapsed emphatic in charges miller told his story without the least hesitation he was emphatic in his as sertion that he could prove both fires were the result of au inceudiary's torch i know that the ayres building was burned purposely and i know just as well that the skokie club building was burned by an incendiary so eager was miller to give the public his story of the two fires that he yester day inserted the following notice in a Chicago newspaper watch for the detailed story of arson ! case of ayers building fire march 10 1898 also arson case of skokie country club of november 20 1911 in the chi cago newspapers september 21 by john j miller oso9 south green street chi cago claims he can prove it i'm bound the public shall know the story of these two fires said miller yes terday i have been to public officials repeatedly though never to the present state's attorney's office but up to now i have received no satisfaction both ef these fires were set as sure as i am a liviug man and i can prove it in both eases i was stock buyer for a store in the ayros building and i was in a position tu kuow all that went on there 1 know that in urance was paid ou fully 60,000 worth of stock that was not in that budd ing at the time of the fire i have de tails am witnesses i can produce re garding the ayres budding fire porter at club at the time of the fire whieh utterly | wiped out the old buildings of the skokie country club 1 was head porter there several days before the fire started in the clubhouse everything of value was taken out of the biuldingg and stored in a cottage 900 feet from the clubhouse building even the golf sticks were taken out a youth who had been discharged on november 14 but had been allowed to have bis meals until he could find a piace downtown bade all of the employes good-by on the morning of november 20 saying he had a place in the boston ' store lhat youth tame lo me that evening hours after he had bade ns all good-by lo say the clubhouse was on flre i looked fer my keys and could not fiud them uuu arterward it was found this boy had them the lire started iu two plates in the kit-hen and in the locker rooms ihat youth wont away next day i did a little detective work and found lie never had applied for a position at the boston store and that his name was not on the application books for a posl tion there u s officials lost on schooner in arctic commissioner reed and education bureau head evans on board nome alaska sept 16 lost in the wild arct c waters is the power schooner wasp with united states commissioner dr reed and superintendent of the bu reau of education evaus aboard little hope is held out for the safety of the officials and large crew the vessel has been missing several weeks lt was chartered to carry sup plies to the mission in the kuskokwim district it should have returned four weeks ago the arctic is especially dangerous at this time of tiie year it is possible that the wasp may be stranded on one cf the bars inthe kuskokwim river uowever iflj passengers and rew are hji^b . | church expels pastor found guilty at trial the rev hanmer involved in husband's suit against wife who nursed him woman named in case former free methodist evange list is accused by brother minister the rev w g hanmer for twelve years general conference evangelist for the free methodist church and for the past year pastor of the st charles ul free methodist church was yesterday found guilty of misconduct and was ex pelled from the church and conference the wife of a brother minister was re sponsible for the downfall of the once noted evangelist so officials of the church say the rev d c nuel who some months ago secured a divorce named ' hanmer the kev mr nuel has no bitterness against the man who he says broke up his home in california hanmer was ill while at alameda cal five years ago mrs nuel the wife of the minister nursed him through his illuess rumor of their relations during this time caused complaints to be made to the church and the following trial the rev mr nuel was here for the trial and was the im portant witness although others were heard . . bishop gives verdict this is the statement given out by or der of bishop william pearce by the sec retary the rev e a tapper of elgin the jury in the case of the freo methodist church versus the rev w g hanmer have returned a ver dict of guilty after a consideration of thc charges made against him the penalty is great he has been expelled from the church nud from the general conference he has been re quested to surrender his parchmemts to the secretary of this conference the sentence was pronounced by bishop william pearce in harmony with the findings of the jury immediately at the close of the hearing the attorneys for the guilty minister the rer w p ferris of elgin and the rev f e bennett of evauston took an appeal to the gen eral conference their appeal was granted until the meeting of the general conference which will be in june of the year of 1915 the guilty minister will have no rights in the free meth odist church either ns pastor or mem ber tue charges were immorality and falsehood trial sets record the trial has been the lojgest one in the history of the free methodist church since last thursday the jury j and judge bishop ministers and laymen i have beeu hearing evidence against and for hammer bishop william pearce was presiding judge the members of the jury were george kreig of freeport r b mckee of al gonquin the rev h l k stokes of Chicago the rev j h cook of aurora tht rev f s parks of morris 111 the rev c s huston of crown point ind the rev w j bone of evansville wis the rev fred siefkin of algonquin and george cottingham of fairbury 111 tight and lure are taken off the stage n y grand jury is advised plays are to be rewritten new york sept ig.-the grand jury which several days ago began an investi gation into the two plays the fight and the lure late to-day announced it j hai been advised that the two dramas would be withdrawn at once the shu herst told assistant district attorney bostwkk they would withdraw the fight and tbat liayard veljler the au thor would rewrite his work for produc tion later the harris estate also sent word that george scarborough author of the lure would at ouce begin revising the play wit au idea of meeting all re j juireiiicnts of the elites and public u.s tattooes clothes on ' september morn recruit forced to redraw picture to join navy nkw orleans sept 16 the lure of the navy drew james n'olte to the re cruiting station here to-day when the examining surgeon got to xolte's chest he was confronted by a tattooed picture of september morn you can't get into the navy with thai picture on you said the surgeon i'll go back to the art st and make him tattoo clothes on her declared noite do that said the doctor and we'll be glad to take you in queen mary becomes censor for movies nearly causes royal feud by ban on lady manners film special cable to the exzmlaor london sept 16 the latest role ot queen mary now known as the royal busybody is that of movey censor an exhibition is given each evening in balmoral castle of pictures the queen censors every morning her blue pencil has nearly caused a break between the royal family and that of the duke of rutland one of the films for private exhibition showed lady diana manners daughter of the duke in a bacchanalian dance the queen was horrified because one scene showed the dancer changing her skirt and ordered ine film left out of the performance can't hire bryan so plans prize fight james johnson of new york offers 300 for speech new york sept 16 james john son received to-day au answer to the fol lowing telegram sent by him on monday hon w j bryan avashlngton d.c will give you 300 for fifteen-minute lecture on auy subject you care to talk about at the st nicholas rink september 24 james johnson the reply which cancels what mr johnson had planned to be oue of his headliuers is as follows james johnson new york c'.ty mr bryan asks me to thank you for your kind invitation of the isth and to say that he regrets it is impossi ble for him to accept m m wyvell private secretary under the circumstances mr johnson announced to-day the principal event at the st nicholas rink on september 24 will be the bout between al palzer and charles miller the only preliminaries will be the ones originally scheduled diggs is acquitted by conspiracy jury convicted white slaver and law yer are found not gulrty san francisco sept 16 the jury in the government's specially pros ecuted charge of conspiracy to suborn perjury against maury i diggs and charles b harris his sacramento at torney to-day returned a verdict of not guilty the jury deliberated an hour and a half and then unanimously agreed to be lieve harris and diggs as against miss nell barton of sacramento who said they sent her to marsha warrington to get that young woman to swear falsely about the escapade of herself and diggs at reno diggs and f drew caminetti are to be sentenced to-morrow morning by judge van fleet on the white slavery charges on which they stand convicted mitchel wins at n.y fusion primaries mccall carries tammany ticket contest for judges new york sept 10 john furroy mitchel at the head of the fusion ticket and edward e mccall with the tam many ticket carried the primaries to day with practically no opposition to either ticket in auy part of the city in the independence primaries there were lively contests for places on the judicial ticket and for borough president late to-night friends of judge warren foster democratic candidate for judge of the court of general sessions who sought the league nomination and rob ert l luce democratic nominee for judge of the city court claimed they had carried the league primaries against cliarles c nott and william l ransom thc fusion nominees named by the league designating committees buffalo sept 10 official returns show that the anti-organization derno ! crats have a lead of 3.000 voles tlie ! victory of louis v fuhrmanu tbo sulzer [ candidate means that william j fiu gy connors the former state chairman will be back in the saddle again assert philadelphia floats on tidal lake engineers excavating cut crust of water-soaked quicksand philadelphia pa sept 16 that central philadelphia with its skyscrapers is resting on a floating island and s lia ble at any moment to be engulfed ln a sea of quicksand was the declaration to day of engineers in charge of excava tions for the addition to the itllz-ciirltoii hotel ut broad and walnut streets forty-live feet below the street work men poked their picks through tho shell of an underground lake rising and fall ing with the tide near where the workmen came upon the lost waters are tho tallest skyscrapers ci phuaflejpula nclndlng the bellqvue stratford hotel lhe land title and the iforth american building mulhall is discredited in report on n.a.m.lobby garrett investigating committee to submit findings early next week clearing all the congressmen accused national association of manu facturers to be censured on the accusation of pernicious political activity in capital washington sept 16 the garrett lobby investigating committee will make its report ou lobby influences exerted on members of the house early next week the report will discredit the testimony of martin __ mulhall agent 6f the na tional association of manufacturers and of i h mcmichaels former chief page in tho house who was in his employ it will be held that most of the charges against congressmen brought by mulhall are not supported by facts the national association ot manufae turers will be censured for its alleged pernicious political activity drop mcdermott charges representative james t mcdermott of Chicago charged by mulhall and mcmi chaels with accepting money for legis lative work will be cleared of i.ie charges on the ground of the untrnstworthiness of the testimony against him he will be censured for placing himself in a position through his attempts to secnre financial aid where the charges of mul hall and others might seem to have basis the final verdict on the culpability of his conduct will be left to the voters of his district all other members of the present and former congresses accused by mu'hall with being under the influence of the as sociation and led to vote on legislation as the association desired will be exon erated and given a clean bill of health hold charges unsubstantiated it will be held that mulhall failed on every particular to substantiate his as sertions regarding them it is the opinion now that in these conclusions all the members of the in vestigating committee will agree it ls probable that representative stafford ranking republican on the committee will present a supplemental report criticising the american federation of labor for its legislative activities and lobby excusing it in a measure because of the activities of the national association of ianufac turers buffalo bill with indians meets prince cowgirls and cowboys cheer mon aco ruler at cody wyo cody wyo sept 16 we welcome you to the great west said buffalo bill to prince albert of monaco as the latter alighted from his fnllman here to day i am mighty glad to he tn the west and to meet real western people said the prince wbo will at once join colonel cody iu a hunting expedition as he stepped into a waiting automo bile he was given a sample of a wild west welcome ln mighty cheers from the assembled crowd of cowgirls cowboys and indians who escorted the ruler of monaco to his hotel bomb is mailed to gen otis life saved by valet japanese servant keeps los angeles publisher from handling deadly box los angeles cal sept jus.-au in fernal machine cleverly constructed and containing enough dynamite to wreck a bouse was received to-day by general harrison grey otis proprietor of the los angeles times at his residence near westlake i'ark the fact that a japaucse valet be came suspicious saved the lives of otis and his family all of whom were at home tlie machlue was arranged so that it would explode by sliding a box lid concealed in t were two stocks of 85 per cent nitroglycerin connected with caps and fuses matches had been placed upright in the box and the removing of the cover would have instantly exploded the dynamite the attempt on the life of otis was the second since the blowing up of the times building october 1 1910 when idneteeu lives were lost the next day a bomb was exploded beside general otis h0me .... servant discovers danger general otis was in his study when his mail was carried to him the servant had removed an outer wrapping of the small box and became suspicious peer ing under one corner and seeing the matches - . it's dynamite he told his employer the police were notified and the box taken to central station an immediate investigation by the police and federal authorities was started it was found that the box had beeu mailed in a fash ionable section bf the city expert explodes it accompanied by two detectives gener al otis had the infernal mnchlue ex amined by a powder expert george felts felts declared it too dangerous au article to handle nt the postotfue sta tion and the hox was carried to a bar ren spot later the dynamite was exploded blow ing a large hole ln the earth experts found that a small box resem bling a thread box had been used a sliding top had been used rnderneuth the cover was u sand paper attachment to light tho mutches when the cover was moved sprinkled shout the matches were bits of powder leading to tbo fuse the handwriting vÂ«h the only ele'.v tills stilted that he had no idea as to who tiio senders might sic general harrison grey otis of los angeles whose life was threatened yesterday when a dynamite infernal machine was sent him through the mail little white house asked for marshall wartinmitox sept 10 a utile white house fo the vice president of the i'nitod ta;e.s will be established bere if the vlsyn of itepresehtative i'ttsnii ciark of florida c:.::ir:::an of ttie eou-uiittee m public grounds ami privi :<-;.. s ave carried out 1 ii r.*ss mr clark believes that a home fo vice i res idents should be boili at t _> datianal capital and lie also thinks tb.it it mmhl help i i'.'wiinh officer greatly to livv on hiij salary if he were also given a iioii:e â– state department says thaw can ask u s intervention wasiiin-cton sept 16 with the case of hirrj k thaw already ' a federal court state oepartmenl off cials "â– â– ':â– ' dec!ared that the atteawau fugitive had the risht to demand that the state department take acttoa in his behalf this opinion was a*.ed upon the ml of canada in expetttag thaw from her burfc without hearing on tb thaw near to freedom by ruling of u.s court even if governor signs extradi tion warrant prisoner must be proved sane before taken from federal jurisdiction state department decides white's slayer has the right to ap peal to government as inter national justice is involved jerome must reverse claim to extradite thaw jerome consented in his final ef fort to convict thaw to a bo^rd of sanity experts whose opinion of in sanity he accepted sending thaw to matteawan in thaw's several battles in the courts since his imprisonment to show that he was sane jerome has fought hard to prove him a madman under the ruling of the federal court in order to extradite thaw he must now show that he is sane littleton n el sept 16.-owing to a unique condition brought about br the decision of judge aldrich in the luited states district court to-day hurry k thaw is to-night nearer free dom than at any time since he shot stanford white judge aldrich granted the petition of the thaw attorneys to suspend the bear ing on the federal habeas corpus writ until after governor felker lias held the extradition hearing next tuesday the terms of judge aldrich's decision are that even should governor felker de side to sign the extradition warrant in the thaw case it will first be necessary for william travers jerome special dep uty attorney general for new vork to prove thaw sane before the federal judge will allow the prisoner to leave the custody of the federal officers decision by court the decision of tho district court ls that thaw remain in the joint custody of the federal officers and the sheriff until after the hearing befu he vu trict court is resumed that jerome may ask governor felker to extradite thaw on tho charge of con spiracy that if the governor does extradite thaw it will be necessary for jerome to ehow the united states court how an insane person can commit a crime it then becomes apparent tbat it will be necessary for new york state to prov thaw sane before being allowed the cus tody of the prisoner by the federal court in this event new yorn state would have nothing on which to hold thaw as there is no indictment pending against him and the only charge which could possibly be preferred against him is that of con spiracy reserves final say while judge aldrich decided to 6'jspend the hearing before him until afn r gover nor felker has rendered his decision the federal judge reserves the final say for his court and will then pass upon the question of whether tho action of the governor infringes upon thaws right under the constitution mrs mary copley thaw harry mother eh graphed to concord to-daj saying tlint she would arrive there to morrow and make u personal plea to governor felker on behalf of her son thaw will be taken to concord to-mor row morning nnd win have an oppor tunity of seeing his mother for the first time since be escaped from matteawau thnw appeared happy to-uight and er pressod much satisfaction at the decision rendered by judge aldrich and also be cause be is allowed more freedom than at any time idnce he was taken to the tombs ln new york city after shooting stanford white thaw also knows that captain lasyoa jerome's detective will uot dare to seise him tn the face of the writ pending before the federal court continued on 2d page 3d ce'umn Chicago and vicinity â€” f f ' ffjlf mostly overcast and cooler wedncs fc jilt i_.Â£j*0 day thursday fair and moderately jog wl cool moderate northwest winds t3l s '"| range of temperatures yesterday ft^kw highest . . . .- 71 l0 lowest *.;. rfi average 1st i vv ) senator owen explains currency bill for examiner many bankers linking asked tho ennmlner to explain how tho new reserve bnr.lin will handle their dally business seimlor owen bus con neutert to write for this jourmil 1 special nrticlo covering the whole ground senator owen '.'.Â£Â« a banker before he became a logisntor and bis de scription of the practical working of the new system will interest every banker in the vouiir.-.v it a proposed lo print lhe article ur in least part of it iu to-nior i')\v's ioiaiii'ic em jmm ig i â– Â«# 1 5 ffikfr ir\ki itp i jm i ipip where to buy the k i best real estate â– Â£Â«$/ ,?--â€¢ whether you buy for investment or im * x'y * __-$' l_i occupancy you are looking for real es â– "â– â€” â– "â€” *â– -[ tate that will constantly rise in value ydo you know that the very best place to find the best real estate values is in the want ad and real estate section of the Chicago examiner here from i i day to dav and from week to week are advertised i farms at sacrifice prices suburban property tiiat means big money for the purchaser and real estate in the city that will bring splendid rewards never buy country suburban or city property without first seeing the bargains found in the exam â– i i er's want ad and real estate section i 3 m examiner leads in circulation the daily and sunday examiner in august sold more papers in the city of Chicago than i any other two morning papers with several j j thousand to spare circulation books open to the inspection of any advertiser

Chicago examiner wednesday Chicago september 17 1913 vol xl no 231 a m wednesday registered fn j s patent office price one cent a^fctf 5 ss^'je 6o cents per month schmidt slew girl to seal lips on seal of betrayal police find that anna aumuller had prepared to bare secret of pastor's double life with her to maid at the rectory other inquiries reveal that slayer was fake doctor as well as coiner and gay rois terer in noisy parties at flat â€” â€” â€” new york sept 10 fear that anna i aumuller was about to expose his rela tions with her as well as other details of his double life was the motive for the girl's murder by the iter hans schmidt at least this is the theory held to night by inspector faurot of the police and coroner feinberg their belief is based on the discovery of several hither to hidden chapters in the past of the fake priest neither faurot nor fein berg believes the prisoner insane they consider him a monster feigning insan ity to escape the chair in addition to his activities as a coun terfeiter schmidt practiced as a doctor specializing in the cases of women de siring illegal operations - he also man ufactured a fake pill which he sold to these women at a high price under the name of dr molicre formerly of paris was gay man about town his clerical professional and coun forfeiting activities however did uot take up all of his time for the police have learned that the flat of his partner in some of his crimes dr ernest a mu ret was used liy schmidt and muret as a rendezvous for gay parties attended by other girls tbau miss aumuller it was in this flat that schmidt used to change his clerical garb for the clothing of a layman and some of the orgies held here were so boisterous in character tbat other tenants in the building complained to the agent dr muret it has been learned has | no license to practice as a dentist iu new york furthermore it has been discovered that he comes from mainz germauy where schmidt was iu trouble in 1908 this discovery discounts ln the minds of the police schmidt's statement that lie met muret after coming to new york girl's chum gives clews anna uirt formerly employed with anna aumuller at st boniface's rectory has supplied the police with information on which tlie theory of murder to avoid ; exposure is based she says she is sure anna aumuller was about to confess to her the relations she auua aumuller had had with schmidt and that the fake priest discovering this had decided that only by murdering her could he seal her lips muret was arraigned in the harlem court to-day charged wit hhaving a loaded weapon ln his possession in viola tion of the sullivan law he was held in 5,000 ball which he was unable to furnish wlieu examined by the police to-day muret defied them to connect him with the murder of the aumuller girl or to mrs scott durand society woman farmer of lake bluff who has been named by governor dunne as a delegate to the interna tional farming congress mrs scott durand to be farm delegate gov dunne names her to attend international congress waukegan 111 sept 16 the honor of being a delegate to ttie international farming congress and exposition of soil products which is to be held in tulsa okla has been tendered a lake county woman mrs scott durand who conducts the famous crab tree dairy at lake bluffs this afternoon she received a letter from governor dunne iu which he appointed her a delegate from Illinois it is probable that there will be but oue or two more candidates from the entire state mrs durand will attend farm ers will be preseut from all over the united states and the world millionaire bissell leads fire fighters son of carpet sweeper manufac turer hero in forest blaze los angeles sept 16 harvey bis sell millionaire son of the head of the bissell carpet sweeper company of grand rapids mich to-day led hundreds of fire fighters iu a conflagration in the sierra madre mountains near la ; cres centa just back of pasadena the fire started saturday and was thought to have been put out by chief forester charlton and 350 men but broke out afresh when a brisk breeze swept the fire toward the bissell ranch menacing lt i and a dozen nearby ranches bissell took ! charge of theifight to check the flame sunderland called to wheeler's post consul general at canton china going to italian embassy special cable to thc examiner rome sept 16 a private cable re ceived here to-night states that george sunderland amer.cau consul general at canton china has been designated to succeed tost wheeler as secretary of tlie american embassy in home mr wheeler left here yesterday for washing ton where he has heen called to explain certain charges tiled against him cub fire in which five died was incendiary j j miller 15 years after blaze in aye:-s building makes accusation investigation to open skokie club also declared to have been burned by firebugs after the lapse of fifteen years there was found a witness yesterday to say that he fire which destroyed the six-story tyres building 215 south wabash ave iue on march 10 isub costing the lives if five persons including a wealthy business man was of incendiary origin moreover this witness also asserts that the burning of the skokie club building at glencoe on november 20 1911 also was due to an incendiary who he says fired the club building u two places the witness is john j miller of 0809 : south green street a written state i ment signed by miller yesterday was j placed in the hands of first assistant state's attorney frank johnston jr vho will examine miller to-day and will hen proceed to a rigid investigation of all the eireumstauces of both fires de spite tho time that has elapsed emphatic in charges miller told his story without the least hesitation he was emphatic in his as sertion that he could prove both fires were the result of au inceudiary's torch i know that the ayres building was burned purposely and i know just as well that the skokie club building was burned by an incendiary so eager was miller to give the public his story of the two fires that he yester day inserted the following notice in a Chicago newspaper watch for the detailed story of arson ! case of ayers building fire march 10 1898 also arson case of skokie country club of november 20 1911 in the chi cago newspapers september 21 by john j miller oso9 south green street chi cago claims he can prove it i'm bound the public shall know the story of these two fires said miller yes terday i have been to public officials repeatedly though never to the present state's attorney's office but up to now i have received no satisfaction both ef these fires were set as sure as i am a liviug man and i can prove it in both eases i was stock buyer for a store in the ayros building and i was in a position tu kuow all that went on there 1 know that in urance was paid ou fully 60,000 worth of stock that was not in that budd ing at the time of the fire i have de tails am witnesses i can produce re garding the ayres budding fire porter at club at the time of the fire whieh utterly | wiped out the old buildings of the skokie country club 1 was head porter there several days before the fire started in the clubhouse everything of value was taken out of the biuldingg and stored in a cottage 900 feet from the clubhouse building even the golf sticks were taken out a youth who had been discharged on november 14 but had been allowed to have bis meals until he could find a piace downtown bade all of the employes good-by on the morning of november 20 saying he had a place in the boston ' store lhat youth tame lo me that evening hours after he had bade ns all good-by lo say the clubhouse was on flre i looked fer my keys and could not fiud them uuu arterward it was found this boy had them the lire started iu two plates in the kit-hen and in the locker rooms ihat youth wont away next day i did a little detective work and found lie never had applied for a position at the boston store and that his name was not on the application books for a posl tion there u s officials lost on schooner in arctic commissioner reed and education bureau head evans on board nome alaska sept 16 lost in the wild arct c waters is the power schooner wasp with united states commissioner dr reed and superintendent of the bu reau of education evaus aboard little hope is held out for the safety of the officials and large crew the vessel has been missing several weeks lt was chartered to carry sup plies to the mission in the kuskokwim district it should have returned four weeks ago the arctic is especially dangerous at this time of tiie year it is possible that the wasp may be stranded on one cf the bars inthe kuskokwim river uowever iflj passengers and rew are hji^b . | church expels pastor found guilty at trial the rev hanmer involved in husband's suit against wife who nursed him woman named in case former free methodist evange list is accused by brother minister the rev w g hanmer for twelve years general conference evangelist for the free methodist church and for the past year pastor of the st charles ul free methodist church was yesterday found guilty of misconduct and was ex pelled from the church and conference the wife of a brother minister was re sponsible for the downfall of the once noted evangelist so officials of the church say the rev d c nuel who some months ago secured a divorce named ' hanmer the kev mr nuel has no bitterness against the man who he says broke up his home in california hanmer was ill while at alameda cal five years ago mrs nuel the wife of the minister nursed him through his illuess rumor of their relations during this time caused complaints to be made to the church and the following trial the rev mr nuel was here for the trial and was the im portant witness although others were heard . . bishop gives verdict this is the statement given out by or der of bishop william pearce by the sec retary the rev e a tapper of elgin the jury in the case of the freo methodist church versus the rev w g hanmer have returned a ver dict of guilty after a consideration of thc charges made against him the penalty is great he has been expelled from the church nud from the general conference he has been re quested to surrender his parchmemts to the secretary of this conference the sentence was pronounced by bishop william pearce in harmony with the findings of the jury immediately at the close of the hearing the attorneys for the guilty minister the rer w p ferris of elgin and the rev f e bennett of evauston took an appeal to the gen eral conference their appeal was granted until the meeting of the general conference which will be in june of the year of 1915 the guilty minister will have no rights in the free meth odist church either ns pastor or mem ber tue charges were immorality and falsehood trial sets record the trial has been the lojgest one in the history of the free methodist church since last thursday the jury j and judge bishop ministers and laymen i have beeu hearing evidence against and for hammer bishop william pearce was presiding judge the members of the jury were george kreig of freeport r b mckee of al gonquin the rev h l k stokes of Chicago the rev j h cook of aurora tht rev f s parks of morris 111 the rev c s huston of crown point ind the rev w j bone of evansville wis the rev fred siefkin of algonquin and george cottingham of fairbury 111 tight and lure are taken off the stage n y grand jury is advised plays are to be rewritten new york sept ig.-the grand jury which several days ago began an investi gation into the two plays the fight and the lure late to-day announced it j hai been advised that the two dramas would be withdrawn at once the shu herst told assistant district attorney bostwkk they would withdraw the fight and tbat liayard veljler the au thor would rewrite his work for produc tion later the harris estate also sent word that george scarborough author of the lure would at ouce begin revising the play wit au idea of meeting all re j juireiiicnts of the elites and public u.s tattooes clothes on ' september morn recruit forced to redraw picture to join navy nkw orleans sept 16 the lure of the navy drew james n'olte to the re cruiting station here to-day when the examining surgeon got to xolte's chest he was confronted by a tattooed picture of september morn you can't get into the navy with thai picture on you said the surgeon i'll go back to the art st and make him tattoo clothes on her declared noite do that said the doctor and we'll be glad to take you in queen mary becomes censor for movies nearly causes royal feud by ban on lady manners film special cable to the exzmlaor london sept 16 the latest role ot queen mary now known as the royal busybody is that of movey censor an exhibition is given each evening in balmoral castle of pictures the queen censors every morning her blue pencil has nearly caused a break between the royal family and that of the duke of rutland one of the films for private exhibition showed lady diana manners daughter of the duke in a bacchanalian dance the queen was horrified because one scene showed the dancer changing her skirt and ordered ine film left out of the performance can't hire bryan so plans prize fight james johnson of new york offers 300 for speech new york sept 16 james john son received to-day au answer to the fol lowing telegram sent by him on monday hon w j bryan avashlngton d.c will give you 300 for fifteen-minute lecture on auy subject you care to talk about at the st nicholas rink september 24 james johnson the reply which cancels what mr johnson had planned to be oue of his headliuers is as follows james johnson new york c'.ty mr bryan asks me to thank you for your kind invitation of the isth and to say that he regrets it is impossi ble for him to accept m m wyvell private secretary under the circumstances mr johnson announced to-day the principal event at the st nicholas rink on september 24 will be the bout between al palzer and charles miller the only preliminaries will be the ones originally scheduled diggs is acquitted by conspiracy jury convicted white slaver and law yer are found not gulrty san francisco sept 16 the jury in the government's specially pros ecuted charge of conspiracy to suborn perjury against maury i diggs and charles b harris his sacramento at torney to-day returned a verdict of not guilty the jury deliberated an hour and a half and then unanimously agreed to be lieve harris and diggs as against miss nell barton of sacramento who said they sent her to marsha warrington to get that young woman to swear falsely about the escapade of herself and diggs at reno diggs and f drew caminetti are to be sentenced to-morrow morning by judge van fleet on the white slavery charges on which they stand convicted mitchel wins at n.y fusion primaries mccall carries tammany ticket contest for judges new york sept 10 john furroy mitchel at the head of the fusion ticket and edward e mccall with the tam many ticket carried the primaries to day with practically no opposition to either ticket in auy part of the city in the independence primaries there were lively contests for places on the judicial ticket and for borough president late to-night friends of judge warren foster democratic candidate for judge of the court of general sessions who sought the league nomination and rob ert l luce democratic nominee for judge of the city court claimed they had carried the league primaries against cliarles c nott and william l ransom thc fusion nominees named by the league designating committees buffalo sept 10 official returns show that the anti-organization derno ! crats have a lead of 3.000 voles tlie ! victory of louis v fuhrmanu tbo sulzer [ candidate means that william j fiu gy connors the former state chairman will be back in the saddle again assert philadelphia floats on tidal lake engineers excavating cut crust of water-soaked quicksand philadelphia pa sept 16 that central philadelphia with its skyscrapers is resting on a floating island and s lia ble at any moment to be engulfed ln a sea of quicksand was the declaration to day of engineers in charge of excava tions for the addition to the itllz-ciirltoii hotel ut broad and walnut streets forty-live feet below the street work men poked their picks through tho shell of an underground lake rising and fall ing with the tide near where the workmen came upon the lost waters are tho tallest skyscrapers ci phuaflejpula nclndlng the bellqvue stratford hotel lhe land title and the iforth american building mulhall is discredited in report on n.a.m.lobby garrett investigating committee to submit findings early next week clearing all the congressmen accused national association of manu facturers to be censured on the accusation of pernicious political activity in capital washington sept 16 the garrett lobby investigating committee will make its report ou lobby influences exerted on members of the house early next week the report will discredit the testimony of martin __ mulhall agent 6f the na tional association of manufacturers and of i h mcmichaels former chief page in tho house who was in his employ it will be held that most of the charges against congressmen brought by mulhall are not supported by facts the national association ot manufae turers will be censured for its alleged pernicious political activity drop mcdermott charges representative james t mcdermott of Chicago charged by mulhall and mcmi chaels with accepting money for legis lative work will be cleared of i.ie charges on the ground of the untrnstworthiness of the testimony against him he will be censured for placing himself in a position through his attempts to secnre financial aid where the charges of mul hall and others might seem to have basis the final verdict on the culpability of his conduct will be left to the voters of his district all other members of the present and former congresses accused by mu'hall with being under the influence of the as sociation and led to vote on legislation as the association desired will be exon erated and given a clean bill of health hold charges unsubstantiated it will be held that mulhall failed on every particular to substantiate his as sertions regarding them it is the opinion now that in these conclusions all the members of the in vestigating committee will agree it ls probable that representative stafford ranking republican on the committee will present a supplemental report criticising the american federation of labor for its legislative activities and lobby excusing it in a measure because of the activities of the national association of ianufac turers buffalo bill with indians meets prince cowgirls and cowboys cheer mon aco ruler at cody wyo cody wyo sept 16 we welcome you to the great west said buffalo bill to prince albert of monaco as the latter alighted from his fnllman here to day i am mighty glad to he tn the west and to meet real western people said the prince wbo will at once join colonel cody iu a hunting expedition as he stepped into a waiting automo bile he was given a sample of a wild west welcome ln mighty cheers from the assembled crowd of cowgirls cowboys and indians who escorted the ruler of monaco to his hotel bomb is mailed to gen otis life saved by valet japanese servant keeps los angeles publisher from handling deadly box los angeles cal sept jus.-au in fernal machine cleverly constructed and containing enough dynamite to wreck a bouse was received to-day by general harrison grey otis proprietor of the los angeles times at his residence near westlake i'ark the fact that a japaucse valet be came suspicious saved the lives of otis and his family all of whom were at home tlie machlue was arranged so that it would explode by sliding a box lid concealed in t were two stocks of 85 per cent nitroglycerin connected with caps and fuses matches had been placed upright in the box and the removing of the cover would have instantly exploded the dynamite the attempt on the life of otis was the second since the blowing up of the times building october 1 1910 when idneteeu lives were lost the next day a bomb was exploded beside general otis h0me .... servant discovers danger general otis was in his study when his mail was carried to him the servant had removed an outer wrapping of the small box and became suspicious peer ing under one corner and seeing the matches - . it's dynamite he told his employer the police were notified and the box taken to central station an immediate investigation by the police and federal authorities was started it was found that the box had beeu mailed in a fash ionable section bf the city expert explodes it accompanied by two detectives gener al otis had the infernal mnchlue ex amined by a powder expert george felts felts declared it too dangerous au article to handle nt the postotfue sta tion and the hox was carried to a bar ren spot later the dynamite was exploded blow ing a large hole ln the earth experts found that a small box resem bling a thread box had been used a sliding top had been used rnderneuth the cover was u sand paper attachment to light tho mutches when the cover was moved sprinkled shout the matches were bits of powder leading to tbo fuse the handwriting vÂ«h the only ele'.v tills stilted that he had no idea as to who tiio senders might sic general harrison grey otis of los angeles whose life was threatened yesterday when a dynamite infernal machine was sent him through the mail little white house asked for marshall wartinmitox sept 10 a utile white house fo the vice president of the i'nitod ta;e.s will be established bere if the vlsyn of itepresehtative i'ttsnii ciark of florida c:.::ir:::an of ttie eou-uiittee m public grounds ami privi : datianal capital and lie also thinks tb.it it mmhl help i i'.'wiinh officer greatly to livv on hiij salary if he were also given a iioii:e â– state department says thaw can ask u s intervention wasiiin-cton sept 16 with the case of hirrj k thaw already ' a federal court state oepartmenl off cials "â– â– ':â– ' dec!ared that the atteawau fugitive had the risht to demand that the state department take acttoa in his behalf this opinion was a*.ed upon the ml of canada in expetttag thaw from her burfc without hearing on tb thaw near to freedom by ruling of u.s court even if governor signs extradi tion warrant prisoner must be proved sane before taken from federal jurisdiction state department decides white's slayer has the right to ap peal to government as inter national justice is involved jerome must reverse claim to extradite thaw jerome consented in his final ef fort to convict thaw to a bo^rd of sanity experts whose opinion of in sanity he accepted sending thaw to matteawan in thaw's several battles in the courts since his imprisonment to show that he was sane jerome has fought hard to prove him a madman under the ruling of the federal court in order to extradite thaw he must now show that he is sane littleton n el sept 16.-owing to a unique condition brought about br the decision of judge aldrich in the luited states district court to-day hurry k thaw is to-night nearer free dom than at any time since he shot stanford white judge aldrich granted the petition of the thaw attorneys to suspend the bear ing on the federal habeas corpus writ until after governor felker lias held the extradition hearing next tuesday the terms of judge aldrich's decision are that even should governor felker de side to sign the extradition warrant in the thaw case it will first be necessary for william travers jerome special dep uty attorney general for new vork to prove thaw sane before the federal judge will allow the prisoner to leave the custody of the federal officers decision by court the decision of tho district court ls that thaw remain in the joint custody of the federal officers and the sheriff until after the hearing befu he vu trict court is resumed that jerome may ask governor felker to extradite thaw on tho charge of con spiracy that if the governor does extradite thaw it will be necessary for jerome to ehow the united states court how an insane person can commit a crime it then becomes apparent tbat it will be necessary for new york state to prov thaw sane before being allowed the cus tody of the prisoner by the federal court in this event new yorn state would have nothing on which to hold thaw as there is no indictment pending against him and the only charge which could possibly be preferred against him is that of con spiracy reserves final say while judge aldrich decided to 6'jspend the hearing before him until afn r gover nor felker has rendered his decision the federal judge reserves the final say for his court and will then pass upon the question of whether tho action of the governor infringes upon thaws right under the constitution mrs mary copley thaw harry mother eh graphed to concord to-daj saying tlint she would arrive there to morrow and make u personal plea to governor felker on behalf of her son thaw will be taken to concord to-mor row morning nnd win have an oppor tunity of seeing his mother for the first time since be escaped from matteawau thnw appeared happy to-uight and er pressod much satisfaction at the decision rendered by judge aldrich and also be cause be is allowed more freedom than at any time idnce he was taken to the tombs ln new york city after shooting stanford white thaw also knows that captain lasyoa jerome's detective will uot dare to seise him tn the face of the writ pending before the federal court continued on 2d page 3d ce'umn Chicago and vicinity â€” f f ' ffjlf mostly overcast and cooler wedncs fc jilt i_.Â£j*0 day thursday fair and moderately jog wl cool moderate northwest winds t3l s '"| range of temperatures yesterday ft^kw highest . . . .- 71 l0 lowest *.;. rfi average 1st i vv ) senator owen explains currency bill for examiner many bankers linking asked tho ennmlner to explain how tho new reserve bnr.lin will handle their dally business seimlor owen bus con neutert to write for this jourmil 1 special nrticlo covering the whole ground senator owen '.'.Â£Â« a banker before he became a logisntor and bis de scription of the practical working of the new system will interest every banker in the vouiir.-.v it a proposed lo print lhe article ur in least part of it iu to-nior i')\v's ioiaiii'ic em jmm ig i â– Â«# 1 5 ffikfr ir\ki itp i jm i ipip where to buy the k i best real estate â– Â£Â«$/ ,?--â€¢ whether you buy for investment or im * x'y * __-$' l_i occupancy you are looking for real es â– "â– â€” â– "â€” *â– -[ tate that will constantly rise in value ydo you know that the very best place to find the best real estate values is in the want ad and real estate section of the Chicago examiner here from i i day to dav and from week to week are advertised i farms at sacrifice prices suburban property tiiat means big money for the purchaser and real estate in the city that will bring splendid rewards never buy country suburban or city property without first seeing the bargains found in the exam â– i i er's want ad and real estate section i 3 m examiner leads in circulation the daily and sunday examiner in august sold more papers in the city of Chicago than i any other two morning papers with several j j thousand to spare circulation books open to the inspection of any advertiser